Postmortem about 12 hours later

So this is intended as my post mortem for Preggo Game Jam 2023, the third game jam I participated in. The first being being Dying MMO Jam which I couldn't get a submission off the ground and MechJamIII where I submitted something barely functional(I'll be there for MechJamIV).

So the first what I believe the largest problem I had was that I spent too much time planning instead of working. Enough that I had intended the game being more than a VN and actually something like Kamidori Alchemy Meister if anyone else has played that(fair warning that it's an NSFW game if you look it up) with mechanics of building up your own base and supplies to sustain the camp. I'll probably detail what I initially had planned later in another post. The excess planning ended up contributing to me spending time figuring out how to get those systems to work rather than getting things off the ground or working on assets I required.

Second I believe was underestimate the amount of writing required. I should have figured that the novel part of visual novel requires a novel amount of words. It really puts into perspective how few 4 or 5 thousands words or so actually is. I had intended on writing up to a point where some kind of radio tower would have been repaired to signal for help but with all the writing I did I barely made up to the Black Goat System. Even then, I ended up skipping over what the machine actually does and egg laying since I had no idea how I wanted to handle that at all from a writing stand point. I was hoping to at least have time to go over what happens when one of the child hits their time limit, but no time for that either. On an average day I was maybe putting down a few hundred words give or take where as yesterday I nearly managed 2k under the crunch.

Yeah, I think that's all my thoughts on the process. Other thing worth mentioning is that given the circumstances I think I handled my time management a lot better compared to MechJamIII.